Surgical dressing



E. E. DICKSON SURGICAL DRESSING Dec. 28 1926. 1,612,267

Filed Dec. 29 '1925 gmwntov Patented Dec. 28, 1926..

STATES seizes? ENSIGN EARLE DICKSON, OF

NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TQ JOHNSON 8a JOHNSON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SURGICAL DRESSING.

Application filed December 29, 1925. Serial No, 78,131.

My invention relates to surgical dressings mainly intended for application to cuts and other injuries of a minor character and of the type'embodying tive to the part to be dressed by an adhesive strip or plaster. A usual adjunct of the dressing is a face cloth which serves the dual ofiice of shielding the pad until required for service so as to keep it clean and sterile and ofpreventing promiscuous sticking of the plaster. VVhe-n emergency arises for use of the dressing the facing cloth is accomplished of course removed and this is generally with difficulty and with casual contact with the pad, resulting in infection,

thus nullifying the precautionary steps taken in the manufacture and packing of the article.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a partible interlocking facing element which will eiiiciently perform the dual otiice stated and yet, in emergency, be .detached readily and without liability of impairing the sterilityof the pad.

My invention is illustrated in panying drawing, wherein- Figure 1 is a plan view of a faced band dressing.

Fig. 2 components in open or unlocked-relation.

Fig. 3 is an edge view with the facing elements interlocked.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view, likewise showing the facing elements interlocked.

In practising my invention, a pad or com-.

the accompress 5 of gauze or other appropriate material is applied to the adhesive side of a strip or band 6 of adhesive plaster in such way as to leave margins 7 of the latter free for service in securing the pad to place with relation'to'the art to be dressed. In the drawing the pad is arranged medially of the plaster and, obviously, it is retained by the adhesive element thereof.

As a coverage for the pad and the adhesive sidev of the plaster I prov1de endwise a gauze or equivalent J5 pad or compress wlnch is positioned relafacmg at its margin,

is an edge view with the'facing opposed facing elements 8 each of which is of a length and width to cover the respective plaster margins and also overlie the pad. Elements 8 may be made of any fabric suitable for the purpose. For example. crinoline has given satisfartion. A fabric of that nature has sufiicient body stiffness to rause its free ends to assume substantially inFig. 2 and also to enthe position shown formed for interlocking able it tobe edge purposes. Accordingly I provide the proxi- I mate edges of the facing elements with reverse flanges 9 in order to interlock them, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, so as to effectually shieldthe underlying pad or compress. The flanges are not only useful for interlocking purposes but may also beavailed of as pulls or grips when the facing elements are to be removed.

' The merit and importance of the invention will be appreciated when it is realized that in the ordinary household it is not uncommon, owing to the to insert the finger or a knife or other implement below the unsecured portion ofthe facing thus contaminating the pad and making for, infection. With the tabs or pulls afforded by the interlocking facing elements of my invention that menace is obviated.

difficulty of lifting the elements whereby.they are retained in flat coverage relation with respect to the dressing. i

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. I 0

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